chining

Verb (1)

chine (third-person singular simple present chines, present participle chining, simple past and past participle chined)

1. (transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
2. (transitive) To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.

Verb (2)

chine (third-person singular simple present chines, present participle chining, simple past and past participle chined)

1. (obsolete) To crack, split, fissure, break.
   • The wayward son did chine his father's heart.

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